LAHORE – Sidra Amin scored the second century of her ODI profession as Pakistan Girls sealed a 2-Zero sequence win with a match to spare within the ICC Girls’s Championship encounter in opposition to Sri Lanka on the Southend Membership, Karachi on Friday.
After recording a complete eight-wicket win within the first match on Wednesday, the Sidra impressed Pakistan produced an all-round present to report a thumping 73-run win.
Sidra’s commanding batting efficiency was adopted by one other excellent spell by younger pacer Fatima Sana who took 4 Sri Lankan wickets, stated PCB in its match report.
Sri Lanka had been by no means fairly within the hunt of the 254-run goal. Openers Hasini Perera (14) and captain Chamari Athapaththu (16) had been despatched again with solely 31 runs on the board in 12.1 overs. The guests failed to interrupt the shackles and misplaced wickets as they tried to up the scoring charge. Hansima Karunaratne (27) and Prasadani Weerakkody (20) consumed 101 balls within the center overs.
Kavisha Dilhari who scored an unbeaten 49 within the first match scored 32 off 35 balls (two fours) however her departure through a stump out within the 39th over drew curtains to Sri Lanka’s efforts.
The guests stored shedding wickets because the lower-order succumbed to probing bowling by Pakistan bowlers. Fatima Sana who had accounted for Perera in her opening spell dismissed Oshadi Ranasinghe and Sachini Nisansala off successive balls within the 42nd over. Fatima Sana added her fourth when she dismissed Nilakshi de Silva for 17.
Fatima Sana completed with 4 wickets for 26 in her 10 overs, she bowled three maidens. Omaima Sohail took two for 35. Sri Lanka completed their 50 overs at 180 for 9.
Earlier, for the primary time on the tour, Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof received the toss and opted to bat first. Sidra and Muneeba Ali mixed to submit Pakistan’s first-ever century plus opening-stand in ODIs.
The 2 had been concerned in a 158-run partnership which comfortably beat the earlier better of 96 between Javeria Khan and Nahida Khan in opposition to England at Kuala Lumpur in 2019.
The left-handed Muneeba registered the second fifty of her ODI profession. She was dismissed by Oshadi Ranasinghe for 56 off 100 balls (three fours).
Sidra reached the second century of her profession on the 137th ball of her innings. The seasoned batter who had scored 76 within the first match produced one other dazzling show to dominate the Sri Lankan assault.
Sidra went previous her earlier better of 104 and was simply 10 runs shy of Pakistan’s all-time highest ODI rating (133 by Javeria Khan) when she was dismissed for 123 (150 ball, 11 fours). Sidra added 74 runs for the second-wicket with Bismah. She has now joined Javeria as Pakistan most prolific ODI century scorer (two every).
Bismah who remained unbeaten on 36 off 43 balls, went previous Javeria’s tally of 2885 runs to achieve the highest of Pakistan girls’s run-getters record within the ODI format when she reached 31. Nida Dar scored 10 off seven together with a 4 off the final ball to assist the hosts get previous the 250-run mark.
The third and remaining ODI will probably be performed on Sunday.
